We’ve been informed that ZeniMax Media, the company that owns Bethesda Softworks and Id, has completed the acquisition of Sweden’s MachineGames. The Swedish studio was born out of the ashes of Starbreeze, who are most famous for The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher’s Bay and The Darkness.
This news comes hot on the heels of ZeniMax Media’s acquisition of Tango Gameworks, the studio run by Shinji Mikami (Resident Evil). So it seems that there is a very talented stable of studios being built around Bethesda Softworks and they will all, we assume, have access to id Tech 5. So this news, while ostensibly about the business behind our games, could have some very exciting prospects for the future.
Now, we’re also hearing that Viacom are putting Harmonix up for sale. Anyone think Rock Band 4 would look good built on id Tech 5?
FluBBa
Ashes of Starbreeze? I thought they were working with EA on a project right now…
Sympozium
They must have been closed a while back?
now what about The Darkness 2? The first to me was the most origial FPS EVER period and the story WOW nothing else comes close.
shields_t
Absolutely, loved the first one – one of the first PS3 games I owned and played to death (via purgatory and then back again).
Crazy_Del
Man I loved that game I had so much fun replaying certain chapters with my “Demons”
Pemberton_
Agreed, the first was great.
Sevchenko
All of this is white noise until they say “And now we’re finally going to focus on the next Elder Scrolls”… Does my breath seem bated?